Chords for Clay Pigeons (Live) - John Prine

_ I don't usually sing other people's songs because I can barely sing my own. _ _
_ But about five or six years ago, Merle Haggard put a version of If I Could Only Fly out on
record, _ a Blaze Foley song. _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ I _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ started asking around, I said, where can I get a Blaze Foley record?
I want to hear him sing If I Could Only Fly.
The more people I asked, the more people looked at me really strange.
Turns out that we knew each other _ back in the 70s.
_ _ _ _ I'm imagining we probably met at Armadillo World Headquarters.
_ _ _ _ _ _ If you walked out the back door there, you could very well hang out with somebody for
a week and not even know their name. _ _ _ _
_ _ So I hope we had a good time.
_ [Bb] _ Anyway, I got through _ various friends, _ _ Blazes and friends of mine that gave me _ a bunch of
his _ records and tapes.
I was listening to him sing If I Could Only Fly and I heard him sing this song here.
It blew me right out of my chair.
I thought, my God, that sounds like I should have stayed awake and wrote that some night.
_ _ It's called Clay Pigeons. _
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_ I'm going down to the greenhouse station, gonna buy [Gm] a ticket to ride. _
_ [Eb] I'm [Bb] gonna find that lady with two or three [F] kids and sit down by her side. _
_ _ _ [Bb] Ride till the sun comes up and down [Gm] around about two or three times. _
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] Smoking cigarettes in the last seat.
[F] Sing my song for the people to meet _ [Bb] and get along with it all. _ _
Where [Gm] the people say [Eb] y'all, _ _ [Bb] sing a song with a friend, _ _ _ [F] change the shape that I'm in _ _ and
[Bb] start playing again.
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_ [Bb] _ I'd like to stay but I might have to go to [Eb] start over again. _ _ _
[Bb] I might go back down to Texas or go to somewhere [F] that I've never been _ and _ [Bb] get up in the morning
and go out at night [Eb] and I won't have to go home. _ _
[Bb] Get used to being alone. _ _ _
[F] Change the words of the song _ and [Bb] start singing again.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ I'm tired of running around looking for answers to [Eb] questions that I already know. _ _ _
[Bb] I could build me a castle with memories just to [F] have somewhere to go. _ _ _
[Bb] Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back [Gm] in the saddle again.
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Feed [Bb] the pigeons some clay, _ _ turn [F] the night into day and _ [Bb] start talking again.
[Gm] When I know what to say.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [Dm] _ [A]
I'm [Bb] going down to the greenhouse station.
I'm going [Gm] to buy a ticket to the ride.
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[Bb] I'm going to find that lady with two or three kids [F] and sit down by her side. _ _
_ [Bb] Ride till the sun comes up and down around about [Gm] two or three times.
_ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ Smoking cigarettes in the last seat.
[F] Play my song for the people I meet _ [Bb] and get along with it all. _ _
Well [Gm] the people say, oh, [Eb] _ _
[Bb] feed the pigeons some clay, _ _ _ [F] turn the night into day. _ _
[Bb] And start talking again.
[Eb] When I know what to say.
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_ _ Clay's Folk.
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_ _ _ _ _ Thank you.
_ _ Dave Chase on bass. _ _
_ _ _ Pat McLaughlin on acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Jason Wilbur from Bloomington, Indiana.
_ Mandolin, electric guitar.
_ _ I'm John Pratt.
Thank you very much.
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